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But Mr. Asher, who pushed the bounds of objectlessness to its extreme, was a special case.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2012

Did the objectlessness of this education of hers pall upon the energy of her nature more and more?

From A Christmas Accident and Other Stories by Trumbull, Annie Eliot

It is like a big picnic without the objectlessness of a picnic.

From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

It was not the severity of the labor that destroyed their minds, but the uselessness and objectlessness of it.

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian